GENERAL APPROVAL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 11

GENERAL APPROVAL

PARIS PRESS COMMENT REMINDER TO GERMANY • Australian Tress Association. (Received 12th Soptember, 10 a.m.) PARIS, 11th Septembor. Tho Press generally approves M. Briand's speech, asserting that Briand gave an outspoken rejoinder to Herr Mueller's insinuation of double-dealing. Tho "Petit Parisien" says that the speech was the most perfect in form and substance of all the pronouncements M. Briand has made. The "Echo de Paris" ventures the opinion that it was a tactical move designed to slow down progress somewhat, and register some resistance to the insistence of Germany's claims. The "Matin" thinks that M. Briand wanted to recall Germany to the straight ;uid narrow path of national reconciliation along which progress can only bo mado with prudence, and also without looking back. The "Gaulois" considers that tlio Gonnau Press descriptions of: the speech as "deceptive" are the highest praise. Tho Socialist newspapers consider that the speech gavo tho lie to the hopes raised by the signature of tho Kellogg Pact and describe it as characteristic of the new French policy. The "Hutnanite" (Communist) says that thero was more than a seed in tho speech of tho programme of Imperialistic France.